Rainmaker Animation and Visual Effects Chooses Qube! for Global Render Farm Managemen

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Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects Chooses Qube!™ for Global Render Farm Management

Honolulu, HI – August 15, 2006 – PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™, the leading render farm management system for film production and game development, today announced that Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects, has chosen Qube! as their render farm management system for both their Vancouver and U.K. studios.

“After careful consideration of queue managers on the market, our decision on Qube! was an easy one. PipelineFX's support is outstanding and Qube! is a mature, stable and extremely scalable product,” said Ronald Knol, IT Supervisor at Rainmaker. “Qube! supports all our applications and platforms, and will allow us to manage our remote locations, simplifying IT and render wrangler tasks.”

Rainmaker LP, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, is an award-winning visual effects, 3D animation and post-production company with a 27-year history of technical excellence and outstanding service in feature films, television, games and commercials. Rainmaker LP is one of North America’s preeminent post-production service providers. Rainmaker LP opened another facility in London - Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects UK Ltd. (“Rainmaker UK”) - which offers cutting edge visual effects and 3D animation in that market. Rainmaker’s Vancouver facility continues to provide a wide array of post-production services ranging from traditional film developing to the very latest in digital image processing, visual effects and computer generated animation.

“With the recent acquisition of Mainframe Entertainment, Rainmaker is now Canada’s largest animation and visual effects company,” said Troy Brooks, CEO of PipelineFX. “With Qube!’s unique client-server architecture and licensing model, Rainmaker is able to share licenses across time zones and really maximize their rendering assets. We are excited to have Rainmaker join us as our latest customer.”

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About Qube! and PipelineFX: Qube! is the leading enterprise-class render farm management system for game development and film production. Qube!™ is highly customizable, extensively scalable, can be integrated into any production workflow, and is backed by 24 x 7 technical support. Qube! has custom pipelines for creative applications like Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk Maya®, mental ray®, NUKE™, RenderMan®, SOFTIMAGE®|XSI®, and many more. Qube!™ is IBM ServerProven®, and operates in Linux®, Windows® XP, 2000 and 2003, and Mac OS®X environments. PipelineFX, with headquarters in Honolulu, HI, was founded in 2002 and markets Qube! to the 3D animation, special effects, video and game industries. Qube! is used by world-class studios around the world, including South Park Studios, Electronic Arts, Buena Vista Games, DKP, Reel FX, Guava Graphics, Radical Entertainment, and Pratt Institute. For more information, contact Troy Brooks, CEO of PipelineFX: troy@pipelinefx.com, Phone: 866-856-7823, 1000 Bishop Street, Suite 606, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813, USA, info@pipelinefx.com, http://www.pipelinefx.com.

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